"Pyrrha! No!"

Ruby Rose darted forward as Cinder Fall drew back the bowstring of her sword-bow. She wasn't going to let her friend die. There was a sudden brilliant flash and she blacked out. The moments of darkness were punctuated by terrifying nightmares and fond memories. Midway through the memory of her team's initiation in to Beacon, she felt a… tug. She drifted through her mind towards it and opened her eyes. Leaning over her was a woman in a black and red military style uniform with blue eyes and silver hair. She wore a black peaked cap with red braid and a curious winged skull insignia on the front. Ruby groaned as she sat up and shook her head to clear her raging headache. The woman asked "Who in the Emperor's name are you, citizen? And what were you thinking, sneaking aboard an Imperial troopship? This ain't a fucking picnic, you know!"

Just then, red lights flashed on and a siren wailed as a voice emanated from a speaker on the wall. "Attention! All personnel stand by! Exiting the Warp! Say again, all personnel standby!"

Ruby felt a disconcerting rushing feeling and forced herself not to throw up. She was suddenly confused, disorientated and dizzy and absentmindedly said "Nice hat…" before she passed out. Waking up again, the woman tossed Crescent Rose at her. "I'm guessing that's a weapon. You know how to use it?" She said as Ruby deftly caught the crimson weapon.

"I built Crescent Rose. Of course I know how to use her."

"Then follow me! We're under attack!"

They ran out of the infirmary they'd been in and down some corridors with high Gothic ceilings. As they ran, Ruby shouted "I'm Ruby Rose, a Huntress and the leader of Team RWBY."

"Commissar Talia Verroche, assigned to the 780th Draconis Dragon Guard Astra Militarum Infantry Regiment. What the hell's a Huntress? And why is there a team named after you?" Talia shouted back.

"Huntsmen and Huntresses protect people, and my team is named after its four members: me, my partner Weiss Schnee, our kitty ninja Blake Belladonna, and Blake's partner and my sister Yang Xiao Long."

Talia nodded as they came across a squad of infantry that were firing at a group of black armoured creatures that looked like human Grimm. Most of them had strange boxy rifles that fired pulses of white-blue light and that had obvious differences to the Dust Accelerator rifles used back home on Remnant. Ruby had realised that they were in space and was merely choosing to puzzle it over when people weren't in danger. Looking the soldiers over, she saw they were wearing red and black camouflage fatigues and black body armour. Two also carried a boxy heavy machinegun and two others carried bulky grenade launchers. A third carried a strange rifle with slightly glowing blue coils that hissed continuously.

Talia screamed "Kill them! For the Emperor!"

Ruby drew Crescent Rose and triggered her Semblance to dart into the heart of the enemy, reaping them like Death itself with every swing of her scythe. As she tore the creatures apart, the squad of infantry split up, the grenade launchers going one way and the commissar and the special weapon going the other. The heavy weapon stayed where they were and supported her with barrages of fist-sized explosive rounds. Shouts revealed their tactic as the squad pincered the creatures and wiped them out. The creatures were fast and another wave hurtled towards them, seemingly heading straight for Ruby. Commissar Verroche yanked Ruby back out of the firing line just before the heavy and support weapons commenced a blitz, tearing the enemies to shreds. Ruby transformed Crescent Rose into its sniper rifle form and slammed to shots into the face of some sort of enemy leader. The first shattered its helmet and revealed the horrible truth before the second obliterated his face. Ruby turned and vomited. She had been… killing… people. She felt a hand on her back. Talia. "Guess you've never killed before, have you?" The commissar said with a sad smile on her face. Ruby shook her head, unable to speak. "Don't worry. It was them or you. They were Dark Eldar and, if they got their hands on you, you'd be begging for death. They wouldn't give you that." She seemed about to say more before the squad sergeant screamed "DISINTEGRATOR CANNON! GET DOWN!"

Ruby turned just in time to be hit in the face. Talia turned to her troops. "Kill it! NOW!"

However, before the soldiers could do little more than aim, a red blur shot past them and sliced the cannon – and its operators – in half. The weapons power supply detonated and the blast whipped Ruby's cloak around her. The look on her face was one of pure, absolute fury, though she took a breath and calmed down. She looked back at the dumbstruck soldiers, whose jaws had dropped. "What?" she said.